MP3: Reliability of Interpol red notices questioned

The case of the Egyptian asylum seeker Sayed Abdullatif, who, it emerged on Friday, was wrongly listed by Interpol as a convicted murderer, has thrown into the spotlight the murky world of red notices, and has reignited warnings that the system is sometimes being used for political purposes. Source: abc.net.au

The Federal Opposition's most senior woman Julie Bishop says the Prime Minister's speech was desperate and offensive. Julie Bishop says the Prime Minister knows that a future Coalition government would not change abortion laws. She says women have a strong voice in the Coalition, despite having few women in shadow cabinet and the parliament, compared to the Government.

Fly-in, fly-out workers are usually associated with people from cities travelling regularly from home to mine sites but there's a significant number of farmers and labourers turning to mine work to supplement their incomes. The mayor of a South Australian fruit growing town sees mine work as propping up his area and he wants more locals to get in on the boom.

Correspondent Mark Willacy has travelled further north up the east coast to an area called Iwate which, along with Miyagi, is the most devastated prefecture. Teams of emergency workers retrieve bodies from under the sea of wreckage and still, thousands of people are missing. Many of them may never be found.

In Northern Ireland the Queen has shaken the hand of the former leader of the IRA, the terrorist group which targetted the royal family and carried out countless bombings in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness is now Northern Ireland's deputy first minister.